Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka

I've got the SONATINA 3 NCN grant!

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka July 31, 2019

Polish National Science Centre (NCN) has awarded me the SONATINA 3 grant! Here is the official information, and here you can find the news on the website of my Institute. During the next three years I am going to study symbiotic stars with the use of optical interferometry. Finally! I've been waiting for such opportunity for quite a...
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Advances with SALT Conference

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka November 17, 2018

conference South Africa SALT

Between 14th and 16th Nov. 2018 I participated in the Advances with SALT Conference in Pretoria, South Africa. The conference covered recent SALT scientific achievements as well as upcoming projects and the strategic plans for the future of SALT. In addition to contributed presentations, there were also many less formal sessions and discussions, which were especially fruitful from...
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Popular talk in Kościan, Poland

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka August 30, 2018

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Today at the Astronomical Observatory of Kościan I gave a popular talk: How can we measure the size of a coin located on the Moon from the Earth?. Observations in astronomy are the basic source of information. Over the centuries, the methods of conducting such observations, as well as their reduction and analysis, have undergone tremendous evolution, and...
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VLTI Summer School 2018

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka July 15, 2018

VLTI SummerSchool Lisbon optical interferometry

From the 9th to the 14th of July in Lisbon, Portugal, I participated in the 9th VLTI Summer School organised by the Portuguese VLTI Expertise Centre, the JMMC, the EII, and ESO. The school was set to train the VLTI users. It was very practical and we were introduced to the tools used in observation preparation and VLTI...
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Master thesis of my student defended!

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka June 13, 2018

students thesis symbiotic star UAM

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Today my Master student - Aleksandra Leśniewska - defended her Master Thesis Modeling of symbiotic star SY Mus based on photometric and spectroscopic observations with the best mark! I'm so proud :)...
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